10,000 flames lit at Tower of London to mark end of the warWe are sorry, you need to be a subscriber to watch this videoWe are sorry, you need to be a subscriber to watch this videoLight from 10,000 flames lit up the Tower of London last night in a tribute to mark the centenary of the end of the First World War. Four years after an enormous display of poppies filled the Tower’s dry moat, the illuminated homage is a reference to the moment that the lights metaphorically came back on after November 11, 1918. At the start of the war, Sir Edward Grey, then the foreign secretary, had declared: “The lamps are going out all over Europe.”Last night’s ceremony began with a Yeoman Warder bringing a flame down from the Tower into the moat, which had been submerged in smoke. Dozens of representatives from the armed forces and volunteers then used the flame to ignite thousands of other…

Source: The Times November 05, 2018 03:09 UTC